Why make toothpaste yourself (when suffering from HIT)?
Especially people suffering from sorbitol intolerance at the same time have problems with most commercial toothpastes.
Another problem besides sorbitol is fluoride. Flouride not only binds aluminium and other heavy metals (we do not want that in the body!), it is not only a fibrinogen (causes you temperature, also don’t want that), flouride also inhibits the enzyme amylase. And amylase is a histamine blocker (we can use that!). Especially to digest carbohydrates we need amylase, too.
Experts classify fluoride as carcinogenic (can cause cancer). Moreover, it can promote diseases like alzheimer’s and diabetes.
The common advice many dentists still give, that fluoride helps against caries/tooth-decay is just a myth or a lie. Actually the opposite is true.
Other reasons to make toothpaste yourself?
It’s easy, cheap, you’ve got full control over the ingredients you put in, and of course, you can be happy that you made something great yourself. Who else makes toothpaste themselves? 😉
Our little cancer patient Shaolin who is with us since last November was of inspiration for this one by the way. She has a kidney tumour and also the pancreas is acting up once in a while. Especially digestive problems are the result. We were able to manage the digestive issues to a great extend. Yet, sometimes she has gum bleeding which stops her from eating.
Luckily we’ve also found a solution for this one now: malva tea. Since cats say yuck to sage tea, which basically does the same thing, malva tea is a great alternative. Malva tea is not as bitter as sage tea is. I dab her gums with malva tea and it is also added to the drinking water (1-2 tbsp. per bowl). Here you can see more of Shaolin (language: German, but with lots of pictures).
Toothpaste without fluoride (mild)
preparation time:
ca. 5 minutes
difficulty:
simple
ingredients for one jar:
7 tbsp. coconut oil (liquid)
9 tbsp. healing earth
1 tbsp. siliceous earth
4 cloves
1/4 tsp. liquorice root powder (only for the taste, you can omit it if you like)
10 drops of peppermint oil
2 tbsp. boiled malva tea
pinch of curcuma
(you can also only use healing earth and omit the siliceous earth, therefore add more healing earth instead)
preparation:
Pestle the cloves. Mix the dry ingredients in a bowl.
Add coconut oil, boiled malva tea and peppermint oil. Blend until you get a somewhat smooth mixture. You can store the tooth paste in a cleaned jam jar. The tooth paste keeps because the ingredients don’t spoil so easily.
Store at room temperature.
Coconut oil has antibacterial effects. Your teeth will also benefit from that. Cloves help against toothache. Peppermint oil is for fresh breath. Malva tea is great for the gums. Curcuma whitens the teeth (also helps to channel mercury and it’s anti-inflammatory). Siliceous earth cleans the teeth better than healing earth. However, for a very mild toothpaste only use healing earth for the recipe (without siliceous earth).
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